the Tea Party

Type: Event

As of November 2026, the Tea Party has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Nov 2025). Discussed as a pivotal movement that signaled a shift in Republican party dynamics towards cultural issues.

The Tea Party movement was an American right-wing, fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2007, catapulted into the mainstream by Congressman Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign. The movement expanded in response to the policies of Democratic president Barack Obama and was a major factor in the 2010 wave election in which Republicans gained 63 House seats and took control of the U.S. House of Representatives.